Non-dogshit-feeling Windows laptops

Hey guys, I've been meaning to by my mom a laptop. She dosen't game or anything but I wanted something with a premium feel. Like the new Dell XPS, or LG gram. I'm wondering if there are any "good" feeling laptops out there for under 1000 bucks with at least 8gb of ram. Surface laptop felt amazing, good touch pad and keyboard, but its pricey. Same with the XPS and Gram. I've noticed a lot of Windows laptops have horrible touch pads and keyboards (Acer...) and just feel flimsy and shitty. Anyone know of some gems out there with a premium feel? Minimum I wanted 8gb ram, IPS screen, and 8th gen intel CPU's.

Rough plan:1. Find some cheap target hardware, likely ARM-based - something like the Raspberry Pi2. Take an existing kernel (Linux) to simplify the task. Write a basic graphics system on top from scratch. Port a browser engine to it. Make it an ugly hacked-together monolothic mess with all the windowing, UI and browser shit hard-coded and hacked together to get it working and focus on getting shit working and get it working fast. Polish the shit out of it (I have some design ideas).4. Make it a useful prototype and hope it picks up some traction.5. Long-term goal is to use this prototype as a basis to build a proper fully-fledged standalone desktop OS but that will do nothing to impact short-term decisions

Does this seem feasible? I have a decent amount of systems programming background.

I have the computing experience of 25 years ago in mind, when UIs used to be simple and work well despite being incredibly low-specced by modern stadards.

My big question: Are low-powered computers fast enough to have a decent browsing experience on 2018's websites if you hack together and optimise shit? Cheap phones can do it, right, and Android isn't that well optimised. Imagine a browser on a shit smartphone except outputting 1080p on a monitor.

>>65170530*walks towards with bat**Smashed that bitch-ass robo-dog like the little propietary botnet it is*"Nothin personel kin"*walk away while the soyboi in the vest cries to his robomommy*>The future may be coming, but it had better know who's boss

>>65173138>widescreenunless you're reading moon runes in the traditional top to bottom, right to left format, then this is just silly. 65 to 75 characters is the ideal width of a line for reading any horizontally formatted text. 90 degree rotated 4:3 or 5:4 monitors are ideal for actual work.>mechanical kb memekeyboards should rest about level with your elbows, not at your ribs like you have here, for extended typing sessions to prevent stress injuries.

or just buy whatever the fuck chair, desk, and computer you can find second hand and stop wasting your money on this shit because the processor on your vps doesn't care how comfy your ass is on the other side of the country when it's chomping through opcodes. this isn't a battlestation, it's a playstation. get a tv and a couch if that's your inclination, stop shitting up tech with your mindless consumerism.

>>65169607Absolutely lots of top tier scientists are chad as fuck. This old geophysicist prof at my grad school was totally a chad he was just old as shit by the time I was there. Always wore a blue blazer with a white shit halfway unbuttoned with chest hair poking out. I know he banged a ton of students in his day.

Earth science in general may be a bit more alpha though than other STEM fields.

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Why ThinkPad?>Used machines are plentiful and cheap>Excellent keyboards - tactile feel and quiet>Great durability: magnesium rollcage for structural integrity, with high quality plastic body panels>Utilitarian design: e.g. indicator LEDs, 7 row keyboard layout on older models>Docking stations that easily turns your laptop into a desktop>Easy to repair (most models), upgrade & maintain thanks to readily available service manuals for every model, spare parts easy & cheap to obtain>The best TrackPoint, great for those who type a lot or hate swiping their fingers all over a touchpad>Excellent GNU/Linux & *BSD support

>>65173488And I'm still waiting on you faggots to explain those numbers. Either you shits are autistic to the point where you literally can't shit the fuck up about your meme machine, or there's an actual shilling campaign here. Pick your poison.

>>65173696>projectingReally? That's your best retort to what I'm saying?But no, I don't own a thinkshit, or any other laptop. I have a decent desktop that I've owned for 5 years now and I turned my older computer into a fileserver running openbsd. I also have a chinkshit cellphone that I kinda have buyers remorse about but whatever. That's pretty much all the technology in my house. >>65173728People that buy themselves thinkpads don't have any kind of sex.